Loran rises from the dead!

Valkyrie · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:21 am Post subject:

I, too, never bought a Loran unit and ran for two years (Lake Erie to Keys and Bahamas and back) on something called DR! Sure hope they don't outlaw that for national security reasons!

Back then the early GPS units had just come out, cost thousands of dollars and were about the size of a large console TV.

Nick
"Valkyrie"

JamesTXSD · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:57 am Post subject:

Jeanie P · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:04 am Post subject:

Joe - My Boy Scout compass has never let me down. Laughing

Allan

Aiviq · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:29 am Post subject:

My dad used to have a loran receiver in his Cessna 182 some 25 or 30 years ago. It saved my bacon once or twice when I got caught VFR on top flying around Northwest Alaska. I guess It makes sense to keep the redundancy of both land and satellite based systems. In 1992 I was living in Monrovia, Liberia during the early years of their civil war. I remember one night when the Loran station there, which was located on the outskirts of Monrovia was overrun by rebels (Charles Taylors forces). The Intercon security guard at the Loran station was describing the rebels attack, and asking for assistance (which wasn't coming). The guard companies chief, a retired U.S. Marine kept telling him to destroy his radio and hide until the rebels left the area. I guess he hid all right, but he never did destroy the radio. We sat up on the embassies roof watching the loran station burn, and listened to him calling for help all night. I guess they had some big fuel tanks out there, 'cause it lit up the horizon pretty good.